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General

Desktops & Notebooks:GainLink.com is built on the web standards. We recommend standard-compliant browsers such as Firefox, Safari and Chrome to enjoy GainLink.com to its fullest extent. Using Microsoft Internet Explorer, this service fully functions but looks a bit less attractive :)

The screen width needs to be at least 960 pixels wide to avoid horizontal scroll bars.

Bookmarklet

A bookmarklet is very similar to a usual bookmark. They are stored in your browser's bookmark folder as an ordinary bookmark would be. However, the main difference is that a bookmarklet holds a small piece of Javascript code instead of URL, and that javascript code allows you to do special things.

How to install:To use the "Gain Link" bookmarklet, you need to install it first. Follow this "Bookmarklet" link, and you will see instructions about how to install the "Gain Link" bookmarklet in your browser's bookmark toolbar.

How to use:When you come up with a site that you want to save to one of your GainLink.com pages, click the "Gain Link" bookmarklet on your bookmark toolbar. It will show you a pop-up window and you will be able to modify saving options. Image on the right shows a preview of how "Gain Link" bookmarklet looks like.

Tweeting from Bookmarklet:Our GainLink.com bookmarklet also works as a Twitter client, and you can post URLs (or any text) to your Twitter page from it. To use this feature, you need to do an one-time-set-up for Twitter connection, from SNS section in your account settings page.

Creating & Managing Pages

In GainLink.com, a Page is the largest unit of bookmark management. The concept of a 'page' is similar to a folder. It is a collection of groups of bookmarks. It's your choice what array of links to put in it. However, the best practice is to collect relevant links into a page so that the page remains manageable.

There are three types of pages:

General page Every page you create falls into this category. You can change its settings and themes.

Trash bin pageA trash bin page is provided to every user. Links and groups deleted from other pages will be sent to this page. This is an innate part of the system, so you cannot delete or change its settings.

Archived pageWhen your Premium account expires, your pages will be reverted to the Basic account type. Since a Basic account allows up to three pages per user, all pages in addition to this amount will be changed to the 'Archived' state. You can view & export your archived pages, but editing features are suspended.

Organizing Links & Groups

Every page has an Inbox group. The 'Inbox' group has various purposes.

Items sent from other pages will be placed in the inbox.

Suggested links will be sent to the Inbox.

When you add a new link from the "Gain Link" bookmarklet, the default target group is the Inbox.

It's Private by default, so it's not displayed to other users, even if your page is set to Public. You can change its name or color. However, since the Inbox is an innate part of the GainLink.com system, you cannot move or delete it.

On the Organize page, drag a link of interest and drop it onto the My Pages sidebar. The dropped link will be placed in the Inbox of the target page. You can also move groups to the other pages in the same way.

For standard (desktop) web browsers such as Firefox, Chrome or Internet Explorer

For iPhone & iPod Touch devices

If you are an iPhone / iPod Touch user, you are probably interested in setting a preferred 'iPhone / iPodd Touch' theme for the page.

When you visit a page with an iPhone or iPod Touch device, 'iPhone / iPod Touch' themes are automatically applied. You can deactivate 'iPhone / iPod Touch' themes by clicking Switch to Standard View link on the bottom of the page.

A GainLink.com to Twitter connection is established using OAuth protocol which is used by major SNS & OpenID services. Thanks to OAuth, GainLink.com only stores a ciphered token for your Twitter connection, which is completely unrelated to both your Twitter and your GainLink.com passwords.

If you want to revoke the established connection between GainLink.com and Twitter.com, use either of the following methods:

In GainLink.com, go to Account Settings, and click the Disconnect button under the SNS/Twitter section

Or, in Twitter, go to Settings, click the Connections tab, and click the Revoke Access link under "GainLink.com by GainLink Team"

* If you want to connect to Twitter after revoking the connection, you need to consent to the connection again.

You can remotely log out from all other computers. Check the Forget and log me out from all other computers option when you log in.

Technical background:Every user in GainLink.com has an invisible 'key' that is used for validating their sessions/cookies. With the "Forget and log me out from all other computers" option, the 'key' will be changed to a new one as soon as you log in, and this action will result in invalidating all the previous sessions/cookies:

You'll be logged out from all the other computers.

Remember Me cookies set on all the other computers will become ineffective.

Each logged-in user access is checked against the originating IP address used at the moment of logging in. Doing this helps deter session hijack attempts performed by malicious code injection, such as XSS. (We also filter user input through an anti-XSS filter.)

GainLink.com supports SSL connection. You can use the GainLink.com service via the more secure HTTPS mode - https://gainlink.com.

However, because the server uses a self-signed SSL certificate, and it's not from a popular issuer (such as VERISIGN), your browser will show you a warning message. For instance, Firefox will show the following:

This Connection is Untrusted

You have asked Firefox to connectsecurely to gainlink.com, but we can't confirm that your connection is secure.

You can safely ignore this message, because the purpose here is to use an HTTPS connection, and the SSL certification issuer is of no importance.